Getting fed up of DS behaviour

[mum2flo]

Ok my son has never been easy. I hated the first 6 months, after that it started to get easier & more enjoyable but now he's 15 months & I really feel that we've gone back to the beginning. He will not sleep, naps for half an hour twice a day if that, won't entertain himself much, screams when I leave the room so I can't get anything done during the day. I am so tired & stressed and taking it out on DH a lot as feel he has so much more freedom even if that is by just working constantly. I never get a break and now lockdown has hit again, I have no one to help me out. Even if we're just sat in the house watching baby tv he is jumping all over me & shouting or grabbing my hot tea.

All I want to know is, does it get easier and is there anyone else who has similar feelings because I feel like the only person in the world at the moment.

It does get easier when they can talk a little.

My only advice would be to physically exhaust him everyday. Take him for a walk and make him walk as much as possible, go to the playground, do jumping jacks, put music on and dance etc etc

Thank you @SeaToSki !

I think you may have unrealistic expectations for his age. At 15 months he hasn't got the maturity to entertain himself but he is old enough to get worried when mummy disappears and certainly old enough to make a nuisance of himself.

I think you need to work with it rather than wish it away. When you go into the kitchen to cook, could you have a cupboard or a box with things he can "cook" with on the floor- basically any utensils he can't break or hurt himself on (plastic bowls, saucepans, wooden spoons)? When you are tidying or cleaning is there a safe place he can see you from? Do you have a safe place he can be put in if you really do have to leave him- either a playpen or a room you could put a safety gate on?

Does he get out every day? Is he walking so you could take him out to splash in puddles? Any park nearby? All the things SeaToSki suggested. The dancing used to be a great favourite with dd.

Your dh presumably has some spare time- can you make sure he takes your ds out or that you go out and leave them when he is home? You need to have some time that is exclusively yours.

It does get better, of course it does.